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The pagoda in the Summer Palace is ‘divided into three storeys, with additional projecting eaves under the balconies. Four of the sides of the octagon are longer than the other four.’ ‘Altogether there is a play of light and shade,’ declares Fergusson, ‘and a variety about the ornaments in this tower, which is extremely pleasing. It is much more like an Indian design than any other in China, and with the circle of pillars round its base, and the *stambha*, which usually accompany these objects further west, it recalled the original forms as completely as any other object in this country.’²